Ambition Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

“Physical beauty, however, was frequently more a detriment than an advantage if one wished ever to be respected and valued for one's mind.”

— Kathleen Morgan

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“No woman has ever lacked elegance because of an excess of simplicity but always because of an accumulation of elaborate details or of ensembles…

— Geneviève Antoine Dariaux

“Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

— Anonymous

“There is no endowment in man or woman, that is not tallied in you. There is no virtue, no beauty in man or woman,…

— Brandi Leigh Hall

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

“One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.”

— Amor Towles

“I cannot help suspecting that the more elegance, the less virtue in all times and countries.”

— John Adams

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;…

— Philip Sidney

“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Elegance is a personality.”

— Petek Kabakci